Our People

Segyu Rinpoche

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rinpoche earned a
degree in electrical engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro while also becoming a master in Brazil’s rich healing
tradition. In 1983, Rinpoche moved to the United States and shortly
thereafter was recognized by the 98th Gaden Tri Rinpoche, the
spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism’s Gelug School, as a master and
holder of a renowned Tibetan Buddhist lineage known as the Segyu.

Rinpoche’s primary teacher was Kyabje Lati Rinpoche (1922-2010),
one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most acclaimed masters of recent times
and the former abbot of Tibet’s famous Gaden Shartse Monastery.
Rinpoche spent over thirty years studying under Kyabje Lati
Rinpoche, and other Tibetan masters, and collecting the ancient
wisdom, methods and healing practices of Tibetan Buddhist thought.
In tandem with this training, Rinpoche extensively studied Tibetan
Medicine, in 2013 completing a three year traditional Tibetan
Medicine course with the Tibetan Medicine Education Center, Milan, Italy.

Having taught meditation to many students throughout the world,
since 2003 Rinpoche has dedicated his efforts to establishing
Juniper as an authentic meditation tradition for contemporary
culture, and teaching Juniper's founders and others to hold and
perpetuate this tradition. Rinpoche also directs the Juniper
Integrative Care Clinic and co-develops Juniper's content and
practices.

Hillary Brook Levy

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hillary attended Indiana University and
Boston University, where she earned a master’s degree in speech-
language pathology. Hillary had a long career as a therapist, which
culminated at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California, where she
specialized in working with head trauma and stroke patients helping
them regain their communication. For over fifteen years Hillary has
practiced and studied the path of meditation and healing methods
under Segyu Rinpoche. Hillary co-develops Juniper's content and
practices. She also teaches meditation at Juniper and works at
Juniper Clinic. Hillary lives in Palo Alto, California with her
husband, Lawrence, also one of Juniper's co-founders.

hillary@juniperpath.org

Lawrence Levy

Born in London, England, Lawrence moved to the United States as a
teenager. After earning degrees in business at Indiana University
and law at Harvard, Lawrence became a partner at Silicon Valley's
largest law firm, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, where he
built the firm's technology transactions department, the first of
its kind. He went on to become chief financial officer at
Electronics for Imaging and then executive vice president, chief
financial officer and board member at Pixar Animation Studios where
he architected Pixar's business strategy and IPO. In 2000 Lawrence
left his day-to-day duties at Pixar, remaining on the Board until
its sale to Disney in 2006. After leaving Pixar, Lawrence dedicated
himself to studying, training in, and writing about meditation
methods and their underlying philosophy. Lawrence is a student of
Segyu Rinpoche and is the principal writer of Juniper’s content. He
teaches meditation at Juniper and gives talks on meditation and its
relationship to contemporary life. Lawrence lives in
Palo Alto, California with his wife, Hillary, also one of Juniper's
co-founders.

Lawrence’s book To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History will be released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt November 1, 2016. The book also recounts Lawrence’s journey beyond Pixar that led to co-founding Juniper and to seeing in Pixar deeper lessons drawn from the ideas behind Juniper’s work. To learn more please visit Amazon or Lawrence’s website.

lawrence@juniperpath.org

Christina Juskiewicz

Born near Chicago, Illinois, Christina was drawn to Buddhist ideas
at the age of seventeen. A few years later she traveled to Nepal,
where she became ordained as a nun in the Tibetan Buddhist
tradition, and then went on to study and do meditation retreats in
Nepal and India. She soon met Segyu Rinpoche, with whom she has
worked for over twenty years as an assistant, a student, and now as
a co-founder of Juniper. For many years, Christina saw firsthand
the difficulties Westerners encounter as they try to penetrate the
path of meditation. Christina is a certified hypnotherapist. She
also teaches meditation at Juniper, works at Juniper Clinic and
co-develops Juniper's content and practices.

christina@juniperpath.org

Pam Moriarty

Born in San Francisco, California, Pam has a degree from Goddard College, has taught instructional design at the University of
California Santa Cruz extension, and has been an organizational
development consultant. Pam dabbled with meditation training for a
number of years and it became a central part of her life after the
death of her teenage son. Since 1998, Pam has studied
meditation training under Segyu Rinpoche—initially to rebuild her
life and now to continually enhance her life and to benefit others.
Pam is a grief counselor and runs Juniper's grief counseling
services. She also teaches meditations at Juniper and co-develops
Juniper’s content and practices. Pam lives in Santa Cruz,
California with her husband Terry.

pam@juniperpath.org

Sarah Grimm

Born in New York City, NY, Sarah grew up in the nearby
Connecticut suburbs. She received her BA in 2013 from Brown
University, where she studied visual art and international
development. Since 2011, Sarah has been in the process of
discovering how beneficial meditation can be in her own life.
In Juniper Sarah found the means to both deepen her own
practice and to share a potent meditation methodology with
others. Sarah joined the Juniper team in April 2015 to manage
the operations of the new San Francisco center.